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Replication files for "Mano Dura: An Experimental Evaluation of Military Policing in Cali, Colombia"
Robert A. Blair, Lucia Mendoza-Mora, and Michael Weintraub
American Journal of Political Science, 2025 
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1. Technical information

All data analyses in this article were carried out using Stata/MP 17 for Windows (64-bit x86-64) 


2. Directories

To run the code, the working directory must be set to the replication package folder. This must contain the following sub-folders:
	- [YOUR DIRECTORY]/code -> contains all code 
	- [YOUR DIRECTORY]/data -> contains the cleaned datasets used for empirical analysis
	- [YOUR DIRECTORY]/data/rand_inf -> stores the datasets used to apply randomization inference on the main results 
	- [YOUR DIRECTORY]/results -> stores the results 


3. List and order of code lines

All code is stored in the sub-folder [YOUR DIRECTORY]/code. This must be run in the following order:
	- The do file "01_housekeeping": defines the functions used 
	- The do file "02_main_results": replicates the tables and figures in the main text
	- The do file "03_appendix_results": replicates the tables and figures in the appendix


4. Dataset information 

	1. admin_data_after.dta: administrative crime data after the intervention. 
	2. admin_data_during.dta: administrative crime data and patrol data during the intervention.
	3. admin_data_prior.dta: administrative crime data before the intervention.
	4. behavioral_data.dta: block-level data with the behavioral measure of demand for military policing.
	5. conjoint_data.dta: data from conjoint experiment on support for military policing. 
	6. patrols_data.dta: patrol-level data on actions taken during the military patrols.
	7. survey_endline.dta: household survey of residents and business owners conducted after the intervention. 
	8. survey_monitoring.dta: household survey of residents conducted before the intervention. 
	9. block_simulate_randomizations_p1.dta: contains 10,000 simulated random assignments of the treatment status in sample blocks. 

The Codebook file includes a description of each dataset and variable used in the analysis.   





